CineSavant Column

Saturday December 15, 2018

Hello!

Cinesavant has a corollary to the adage ‘Great minds think alike:’ great correspondent’s minds are great to swipe from! Reader Rusty Conifer just wrote in, “I can never watch the scene in Brigadoon when Kelly magically returns to Brigadoon and Cyd Charisse flings open the cottage door and holds a couple of beats in silhouette, without thinking of James Arness’s door appearance in The Thing From Another World.“ Brilliant! I’ve already criticized ‘Digabroom’ far too much, but now I have to see the end of it again!

Flicker Alley has announced a February 5 disc of the silent German 1929 Der Hund von Baskerville by Richard Oswald, that I’ve been told is very exciting — the Germans saw Sherlock Holmes as an action hero from the get-go. If the title isn’t familiar, it’s Beeg Dog from Basker Veel in Russian.

Arrow has something special arriving in March, a Blu of Robert Siodmak’s marvelous noir Phantom Lady.

A personal note: I’d like very much to re-contact with John Sinnott. I hope that he reads this, or can be tipped off that I want to say hi. It’s a Dab in the Stark, as they say, and not exactly the caliber of a Christmas miracle wish, but we’re grateful for what we can get.